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    add SubmitDirManager for EventLoop · c124e9c7
    Nils Krumnack authored
    This combines two updates into one: It creates a new manager, that
    takes care of everything related to handling the submission directory
    itself.  And it defines a series of modes for creating the submission
    directory.
    
    The modes for the submission directory are probably more interesting
    for the users.  There are now for modes:
    
    * "no_clobber": create the directory and if that fails raise an error.
      this is the default behavior we had so far.
    
    * "overwrite": create the directory, removing anything in the way.
      this was the behavior so far when `optRemoveSubmitDir` was
      specified.
    
    * "unique": append a unique suffix to the submit directory name.  this
      is mostly meant for unit-tests in which one may specify the same
      submit directory multiple times or in multiple tests.
    
    * "unique-link": same as "unique" but create a link under the
      officially requested name to point to the newly created directory,
      replacing any previously existing link.  the idea is that this is
      mostly consistent with the old behavior while not requiring the user
      to remove the submit directory, and indeed keeping a history of all
      past submissions.
    
    The unique directories will be named something like
    `submitDir-2019-08-22-1438-95f6`, which is essentially the originally
    requested name, the date-time, and some random digits to make this
    unique if several submissions happen in quick succession.  The date
    comes first so that directories are ordered by date-time.  The actual
    date format can be configured, if desired.
    
    I did not change the default behavior (hopefully), but if people like
    it we could probably make "unique-link" the default mode instead of
    "no-clobber".
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